To celebrate #WildTurtleWeek, take a moment to appreciate this important ecosystem engineer: the gopher tortoise! More than 350 different species have been documented using the burrows that gopher tortoises create. As you can see in this video, these range from mammals, like the imperiled Florida mouse, to amphibians, like the secretive gopher frog! Hundreds of invertebrates also use the burrows, and some species cannot persist without them. To help support gopher tortoise conservation, FWC rese
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To celebrate #WildTurtleWeek, take a moment to appreciate this important ecosystem engineer: the gopher tortoise! More than 350 different species have been documented using the burrows that gopher tortoises create. As you can see in this video, these range from mammals, like the imperiled Florida mouse, to amphibians, like the secretive gopher frog! Hundreds of invertebrates also use the burrows, and some species cannot persist without them. To help support gopher tortoise conservation, FWC rese
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Take a look inside a gopher tortoise burrow! Biologists discovered a tortoise deep inside this burrow at Branan Field WEA in northeast Florida during a survey in December. Gopher tortoise burrows average 15 feet in length and 6.5 feet deep. The standard methodology we use is Line Transect Distance Sampling (LTDS) with burrow scoping that allows biologists to count actual tortoises and not just the burrows. Historically, the FWC counted burrows and estimated two burrows per tortoise. The LTDS met
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Take a look inside a gopher tortoise burrow! Biologists discovered a tortoise deep inside this burrow at Branan Field WEA in northeast Florida during a survey in December. Gopher tortoise burrows average 15 feet in length and 6.5 feet deep. The standard methodology we use is Line Transect Distance Sampling (LTDS) with burrow scoping that allows biologists to count actual tortoises and not just the burrows. Historically, the FWC counted burrows and estimated two burrows per tortoise. The LTDS met
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We have tortoises! 🐢 🐢 🐢 We've had a long waiting list to adopt, but lots of tortoises found great homes and we've recently received many more! It's gonna be a beautiful weekend, so spend some time outside getting the burrow ready for your new best friend and then check out our NEW and easy online adoption form: http://bit.ly/TortoiseAdoptionGuide | Arizona Game & Fish Department
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We have tortoises! 🐢 🐢 🐢 We've had a long waiting list to adopt, but lots of tortoises found great homes and we've recently received many more! It's gonna be a beautiful weekend, so spend some time outside getting the burrow ready for your new best friend and then check out our NEW and easy online adoption form: http://bit.ly/TortoiseAdoptionGuide | Arizona Game & Fish Department
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✨Intern Highlight✨ Our animal care tech intern, Emily, helped out with a gopher tortoise release last week! By buildling a starter burrow for this young gopher tortoise, eventually this burrow could be 30 feet long! Thank you to our staff member and intern for getting this important keystone species back into the wild!🐢 #FloridaWildlifeHospital #gophertortoise #burrow #keystonespecies #wildliferelease #RescueRehabRelease #floridawildlife #florida #wildliferehab #KeepingWildlifeWild | Florida Wi
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✨Intern Highlight✨ Our animal care tech intern, Emily, helped out with a gopher tortoise release last week! By buildling a starter burrow for this young gopher tortoise, eventually this burrow could be 30 feet long! Thank you to our staff member and intern for getting this important keystone species back into the wild!🐢 #FloridaWildlifeHospital #gophertortoise #burrow #keystonespecies #wildliferelease #RescueRehabRelease #floridawildlife #florida #wildliferehab #KeepingWildlifeWild | Florida Wi
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In the heart of the Everglades, these slow-moving gopher tortoises dig burrows that offer vital shelter to over 300 species, protecting them from the extreme temperatures of the region. | National Geographic Animals
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Hope you're having a tip-top Turtle Tuesday, everyone! You may never have heard of the Gopher Tortoise, but trust us, they're kind of a DIG deal. With spatula-like front claws that are just PERFECT for scooping up sand, these burrowing reptiles create lengthy underground homes that are used by hundreds of species in the pine forests of the American Southeast. That pivotal role has earned them the distinction among biologists as a "keystone species" and why every April 10 is celebrated as Gopher
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Gopher Tortoises spend roughly 80% of their time living below ground in their burrows, which provides protection from extreme weather and predators. The burrows also provide shelter and refuge for over 350 species, including snakes, mice, rabbits, and frogs. Their time above ground is spent feeding on low-growing plants that they can find around their burrow entrance. They are opportunistic grazers, foraging the vegetation near their burrows, only traveling further if necessary. Video by Anna Ma
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Just popping in to tell you all about how to be a turtle-y good neighbor! Much like the gopher tortoise. Their burrows provide shelter for not only the tortoises themselves but for hundreds of other species, from endangered indigo snakes to gopher frogs and burrowing owls, which is why, as you’ll often hear, gopher tortoises are considered a keystone species. The species has experienced population decreases largely due to habitat loss, a threat shared by countless species in their range. Histori
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Turtle Survival Alliance on Instagram: "I feel like we’ve lived this day before… 🤔 Happy #GroundhogDay! Although not exactly a groundhog, the Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) is no-tort-ious for their excellent digging capabilities, not unlike a famous critter we’re celebrating today! This turtle can burrow a tunnel averaging 15ft deep, but can even go as far as 40ft. These tunnels keep Gopher Tortoises safe from predators, and help them stay warm in the winter. By digging a long burrow, t
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